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Kokon is a free, open-source app that edits photos with AI from a sentence, entirely on your own computer: like Nano Banana, but private, offline and without limits.

Short description

Kokon lets anyone edit photos with AI on their own PC or Mac. Drop a photo, brush an area or just describe the change ("remove the scooter", "make it a snowy night"), and it's done. There is nothing to configure: Kokon picks the best open image model (today Qwen-Image 2.1), downloads it and tunes it for the computer's graphics card. No Python, no ComfyUI, no cloud, no account. It also ships an MCP server, so AI agents like Claude Code can create and edit images locally.

Key facts

• Price: free and open source (AGPL-3.0). Images are for non-commercial use because of the model's license (Qwen Research License).
• Platforms: Windows 10/11, macOS 15+ on Apple Silicon (beta), Linux x86-64 .deb and .rpm (beta).
• Hardware: NVIDIA with 12 GB of VRAM (8 GB in beta); AMD and Intel Arc with 12 GB through Vulkan (beta); Apple Silicon, 32 GB recommended.
• Model: Qwen-Image 2.1 Turbo (8 steps), run through Kokon's own build of stable-diffusion.cpp. About 12 GB, downloaded once.
• Speed: about 24 s per edit at 1.5K and 36 s per new image at native 2K on an RTX 5070 Ti.
• Features: edit with a sentence; paint an area and Change, Remove, Replace or Add; combine photos; expand beyond the borders; create from text; Prompt+ (writes the detailed prompt from a few words); your own LoRAs (beta); 2× and 4K upscaling; versions with before/after; private mode; MCP server and local API.
• Made by: Gabriele Lozupone, an AI researcher in Italy, with the help of Claude Code. Independent project.
• Released: October 2026. Current version on the releases page.

Videos

• Kokon 0.10 film (85 s, 4K)
• What's new in 0.10 (42 s, 4K)
• Download the film as MP4

The videos are made from the app's real interface with Remotion; their source is open too.

Images

All made by Kokon on one consumer GPU. Prompts and seeds are in the repository.

• App screenshot · Social card · Video poster
• Remove: before / after · Add: after
• Relight: before / after · Text: before / after
• Restyle: before / after · Replace: before / after
• Expand: before / after

Logo

• Logo, dark on light (SVG) · Logo, light on dark (SVG) · App icon (PNG, 512 px)

Contact

Questions, a test build, or help with a video: open a GitHub Discussion or write to @g_lozupone on X.